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Melissa Balmain (Photo: Lily FitzPatrick)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Journalist is editor of nation\u2019s longest-running journal of light verse.<\/h2>\n

Melissa Balmain<\/a>, an adjunct instructor in the English department<\/a> at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a>, is the Humor Writer of the Month this December at the Erma Bombeck Writers\u2019 Workshop at the University of Dayton.<\/p>\n

Balmain edits Light<\/em>, an online journal of light verse established in 1992. A journalist and poet, Balmain has published her humor in such venues as The New Yorker<\/em>, the New York Times<\/em>, McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>, The Satirist<\/em>, the Washington Post<\/em>, and many anthologies. Her poetry collection, Walking in on People<\/em> (Able Muse Press), appeared in 2014. The workshop\u2019s namesake, Bombeck was a popular mid-20th-century humor writer who published 12 books and a column, \u201cAt Wit\u2019s End,\u201d about her experiences as a suburban mother, that was syndicated in 900 newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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